Lavinia Sheets
hearing & balance researcher, ichthyophile, mostly lurker
sheetslab.net
- Reposted by Lavinia Sheets"When the emphasis is placed on attitude and adaptability, the burden of systemic failure is absorbed by individual workers." This piece on the insidious normalization of an increasingly and intentionally broken NIH is so spot on it hurts. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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- I'm thrilled to see this beautiful work by recent Prince lab members Theresa Christiansen and Vish Venkataraman now in print! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
- A beloved STL community institution is rebuilding, which makes me feel happy & hopeful ❤️🎶 #SupportLoveofcrstl www.radiostlouis.org
- Reposted by Lavinia SheetsA super interesting historical review in Genetics, chosen completely at random: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
- Celebrating another year of amazing research with this great team 🎄 ❄️
- Your auditory nerves are super resilient! They survive damaging noise exposures and repair synaptic connections (until they don’t) 💥 Does calcium signaling play a role in their survival and repair? Check out Poster 120.02 (Board K4) today and find out more! 🐟 1-5 pm #SfN2025
- Your brain sends inhibitory signals to your ears to optimize sound detection and protect against loud sounds 👂💥 What happens to sensory cells and behavior when one of the receptors for that signal is absent? Check out Poster 120.01 (Board K3) to find out 🐟 1-5 pm #Sfn2025
- "Fishman", proposal for a journal cover. Commissioned by MY Dennis' lab @mydennis.bsky.social for a study focused on identifying human-specific gene duplications and their role in brain evolution using genomics and zebrafish as model. @dcsoto.bsky.social #art #digitalart #sciart #fish
- sunny autumn #caturday
- Copy/paste to a doc before logging back in saved my 🍑 during my last round of reviews Also saved those docs as back ups in case something glitches before study section (hopefully) reschedules 😬
- Best fishes this Halloween 👻
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- Nobody: Me: here's my playlist for the CID research group's spooky social tomorrow 🎃👻 open.spotify.com/playlist/7vQ...
- tfw you see exciting preliminary data on a Friday
- The Auditory System Gordon Research Conference preliminary program is now online! www.grc.org/auditory-sys... Mark your calendars, and bring your trainees & fresh data - it's gonna be 🔥
- Sign of how stressed med school departments are: to figure out when and where I'm giving an invited seminar in another department tomorrow, I had to hunt down the talk announcement 👀
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- Seeing some upsetting pics of downtown Chicago this evening 🙁 I was just there yesterday after college visits with my kiddo—crowds of people enjoying the beautiful weather in Millennium Park during the day and vibing on the waterfront at night ✨
- my hometown 💚
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- Happily sharing that our paper, where we examen the link between synaptic vulnerability & molecular identity in auditory neurons, is now up on Biorxiv! 🥳 I am ELATED to finally share what has been a major part of my postdoc life the past few years. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- This one hits—this one hits real hard 😔
- Also Danionella! Be sure to also check out the Supplementary Material 😍
- Can't wait to read this preprint from Misha Ahrens and team. Calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, in every cell in the body! Amazing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Lavinia SheetsToday, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, who died on August 24, 2016. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...
- Very sad news for the auditory research community - my condolences to his trainees, colleagues, and friends
- current mood
